Copyright of I burn Paris

[Russell Valentino]

If you're translating the Polish text into English, I'd write to the Polish 
publisher (find the person who handles foreign rights if possible) and ask 
whether they hold the rights or whether someone else does (e.g., the 
author). To save time, you could also write to the publishers of all the 
other versions with the same question. You don't really need to negotiate 
for the rights, only get word that no one else has purchased them. Whoever 
has them won't likely sell them to you (as translator), they'll want to 
deal with a publisher, but with a work from 1929 you'll need to have done 
all the leg work first before getting a English-language publisher to take 
the official rights acquisition steps.

Russell

At 09:34 13.04.2005, you wrote:
>Dear SEELANGers,
>I'm trying to get the permission to translate Bruno Jasienski's 1929 novel "I
>burn Paris (Pale Paryz, Je brule Paris)" The original is in Polish (I 
>believe)
>and there are also French, Russian and Czech versions. Does anybody know 
>how to
>track down the copyright holders of any of these versions?
>Bora Chung
>Slavic Lang. and Lit.
>Indiana University
>bochung at indiana.edu
>
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Russell Valentino
Associate Professor
Program in Russian
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
University of Iowa
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